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"Less is more, and Moore is a bore" was what one heard from English ar...  
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens...  
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with Ho...  
Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on the...  
Hair like black ice cream.  
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.  
It was an obsolete pachyderm of tawny limestone.  
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.  
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to t...  
Matisses and Miro's hung transfixed like rabbits in the glare of spotl...  
Most of the untranscribed and unpublished manuscripts in the book popp...  
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.  
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this cultur...  
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejec...  
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is g...  
The prisons are the monuments of Australia-the Paestums of an extraord...  
The protein of our cultural imagination.  
The prototypes of strong sensation: blazing lights, red earth, blue se...  
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another w...  
Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful c...